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Psychiatric aeromedical retrieval towards best practiceBy Dr Minh Le Cong MBBS(Adelaide), FRACGP, FACRRM, FARGP, GDRGP, GCMA, DipAeroRT(Otago), JCU aeromedical lecturer,Cert IV TAA Senior Medical Education Officer RFDS Cairns August , 2010
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Psychiatric aeromedical retrieval‐towards best practice‐

By Dr Minh Le CongMBBS(Adelaide), FRACGP, FACRRM, FARGP, GDRGP, GCMA, DipAeroRT(Otago), JCU aeromedical lecturer,Cert IV TAA

Senior Medical Education OfficerRFDS CairnsAugust , 2010

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Disclosures

• Financial : None declared

• Academic : 

• 1.Part of this talk is currently undergoing further study “Ketamine sedation for psychiatric aeromedical retrievals” HREC approval, Queensland Health , Cairns District

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Objectives

• Review current practices and literature• Assessment of psychiatric patients for transport

• Physical restraint use• Transport escort principles• Transport sedation principles• Discuss intubation for psychiatric retrievals• Case presentation

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RFDS OVERVIEW RFDS Bases

8 Operational Bases

• Clinic / Retrieval Base– Cairns (est 1972 relocated 

from Charters Towers)– Charleville (est 1942)– Mt Isa (est 1965 relocated 

from Cloncurry)– Townsville (est 1996)

• Retrieval Only Bases– Brisbane (est 1995)– Rockhampton (est 1995)– Bundaberg (est 2002)

• Clinic Only Bases– Longreach (est 2004)

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Beechcraft Super King Air B200 SEBeechcraft Super King Air B200 SE

* Average Cruise Speed ‐ 480 km/hr* Max Range ~3,400 km* Max Altitude – 35,000 ft* Fuel Consumption – 340 Lt JetA1 /hr 

* 2 Stretcher Capacity with comprehensive Medical Equipment Cabin Fit

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Current aeromedical practice

• Ad hoc assessments

• Gut feelings vs careful triage/history taking

• Guidelines often ignored

• Police escorts and restraints underutilised

• Low threshold for intubation for transport

• Must transport mentality

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Legalities of air transport of psychiatric patients

• Pilot has final say –period. (Civil Aviation Regulation 309)

• CASA does not distinguish between voluntary or involuntary patient

• In QLD, Mental Health Act makes provision for police escort

• “Least restrictive” & “Reasonable means” are operating legal terms in current guidelines

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Aeromedical transportation of psychiatric patients: Historical review and present management.

Jones DR,Aviat Space Environ Med. 1980 Jul;51(7):709‐16.

• Early Second World War, transport by ship solely.

• Problems exarcebated using this method

• Aeromedical classification system developed  

• High to low risk categories

• Response to risk : nil to combined restraints & dedicated escort

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Airline Passenger Misconduct: ManagementImplications for Physicians

Kathleen Pierson, Yuri Power, Adeyinka Marcus, andAngela Dahlberg Aviat Space Environ Med 2007; 78:361–7.

• Report 3 cases of agitated passengers on international flights ( 2 psychotic, 1 ETOH intoxicated)

• Combined chemical and physical restraint considered safest method of managing extremely combative on airline

• Continuous medical monitoring vital for safety of restrained

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Inflight violent patient

• Risk prediction?

• Appropriate escorts?

• Preflight sedation?

• Preflight intubation?

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What are the greatest risk factors for violence?

• Intoxication

• Active mental illness : paranoid psychosis, delirium, mania

• Past history of violence

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RFDS risk assessment tool/protocol

• Active since 2006

• Screening tool

• Low risk score generally reliable

• High risk score could mean anything

• Useful to organise assessment preflight

• Should be repeated if things change

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RFDS risk tool evaluation

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RFDS QLD Revised Risk Assessment tool ,2010

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Physical restraints

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Why don’t we use this?

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Physical restraints in aeromedical setting

• RFDS QLD protocol• Restraints – quick release, 

velcro fasteners, 4 points• RFDS SA – body net• Patient explanation if 

possible prior to use• Police restraints• Careful medical monitoring 

during use• Avoid prone position• Avoid patient struggling 

against restraints (SEDATE!!)

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Escorts – choosing the right crew

• Doctor ( background experience in acute mental health preferred + advanced airway skills + procedural sedation competency)

• Flight nurse ( familiar with restraints and protocol+ sedation nursing competency)

• Paramedic ( SA model)

• ALS training for all

• Police – role in this work?

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Police escorts

• Sanctioned under all state MHA for transport escorts

• Powers of detention

• Trained in restraint

• Deterrent effect

• Extra pair of hands

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Case illustration – Mr T

• 24yo Indigenous man 

• Admitted with deteriorating behaviour and self care

• PMH : schizophrenia

• Tasking call : NZC says “Its your call but I’d tube this guy..he was moved last time on ketamine infusion..but..”

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Further history

• Currently in rural hospital with GP

• Under ITO

• Time is 1600. Flight time 30 min one way

• Current treatment : Olanzapine 20mg, diazepam 20mg, haloperidol 5mg IV, Clonazepam 2mg

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When you get there..

• Patient in doorway of room, yelling “I am not f*##ing go to Cairns”

• Two police in attendance

• IV access x2 

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What now?

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The limits of benzodiazepine and antipsychotic sedation

• Substance abusers often tolerant to first line sedatives

• ETOH abusers often tolerant to everything!

• Need to consider the realm of procedural sedation at this point...or general anaesthesia

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Ketamine sedation

• Powerful sedative

• Maintains respiratory drive to a degree

• Seems to work when first line sedatives fail

• Problems: hangover, nausea, delirium

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Does ketamine worsen mental illness?

• Maybe in the short term

• No in the long term

• RFDS Cairns & Remote mental health service evacuation review committee

• Audit of ketamine use on psychiatric retrievals

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Our experience so far..

• 19 cases collated over 3 years• Medium to very high risk scores• One reported case of inflight vomit ( positioning required)

• One reported case of generalised muscle rigidity• Initial bolus range : 10mg – 100mg• Infusions : 20‐ 300mg /hr• No reported cases of oxygen desaturation or hypotension

• No reported cases of airway interventions required ( OPG, NPG, intubation, jaw thrust)

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What about the 72hrs post ketamine sedation?

• Mild hypertension noted in about 10% for 1‐6hrs 

• No cases of worsening agitation attributable to ketamine ( pre‐ketamine agitation =post ketamine agitation)

• One case of bradycardia (HR 40) and GCS 3 for 1 hr in ED post handover (polypharmacy in particular IV morphine likely cause!)

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Ketamine sedation tips

• 0.5‐1.5mg/kg initial IV dose ( best preflight test dose)

• Adjuncts : midazolam, atropine(optional)

• Monitoring : cardiac rhythm, SaO2, BP, ETCO2 ( see image)

• Preketamine sedation vital in minimising delirium (IMPORTANCE OF ADEQUATE PRE‐TRANSPORT SEDATION)

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The future??? Propofol TCI

• Infusion protocol

• Conscious sedation, very effective

• Very safe if done right as offset time very short

• Need ENOUGH PROPOFOL for trip!

• PREHOSPITAL EXPERIENCE = ZERO

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Remifentanil TCI

• Ultrashort acting synthetic high potency opioid

• Infusion based protocol

• Anaesthesia/ICU experience extensive

• Prehospital experience = zero

• Psychiatric sedation experience unheard of

• Novel use in the transport setting?

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Ketofol

50:50 mix ketamine/propofol

• Novel sedative cocktail

• Synergistic = lower doses needed

• Propofol minimises hallucinatory and emetogenic effects

• Ketamine minimises respiratory and CVS effects

Retrieval study waiting to be done!!!!

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Dexmedetomidine

• Potent alpha 2 agonist, ICU and anaesthesia use

• Ketamine like sedation

• Sympatholysis

• Infusion based protocols

• Expensive

• Prehospital experience =zero

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RFDS retrieval sedation guidelines 2010

• Addition to Clinical Practice guidelines• Collaborative work between RFDS and Cairns remote psychiatric service consultants (Professor Ernest Hunter, FRANZCP, Dr Bruce Gynther, FRANZCP)

• Expert input from retrieval anaesthetist (Dr Peter Schuller, FANZCA) and ED physicians (Dr Geoff Ramin, FACEM, Dr Steve Rashford, FACEM, Dr Mark Elcock, FACEM)

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• Objectives:

• Provide standardized clinical approach for the sedation of a patient requiring aeromedical transport who is acutely disturbed

• Maintain minimum standards of sedation assessment and monitoring in the aeromedical and retrieval setting 

• Enhance patient and transport team safety 

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• Handover

• Airway assessment

• Resuscitation gear preparation

• Monitoring

• Medical assessment

• Fasting status

• Sedation/Agitation scoring

• Target sedation level/score

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• Emergency sedation (unplanned) :

• Goals:

• Rapid control of agitation/dangerous behavior(RASS score +3 to +4)

• Allow safe assessment and treatment of a patient

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IV access?

Oral olanzapine wafer 10‐20mg stat

ORIMI midazolam 5‐10mg

And/orIMI haloperidol 5‐

10mgAnd/or

IMI ketamine 4mg/kg

IV midazolam 2‐5mgAnd/or

IV haloperidol 5‐10mgAnd/or

IV ketamine 1‐1.5mg/kg 

REPEAT IV BOLUSES every 5‐

10 minTARGET 

SEDATION = RASS 0 to ‐3

Gain IV access

POST EMERGENCY SEDATION CARE•Minimum sedation monitoring set should be established ( SaO2, cardiac rhythm, NIBP)•Supplemental oxygen 2-4 L/min via nasal cannue or mask to maintain SaO2 >94% at all times•RFDS physical restraints to be placed if not already and secured to stretcher•Position patient in 45deg head up if possible to maximize spontaneous ventilation and minimize risk of aspiration•Perform rapid patient assessment for causes of acute agitation ( ABCDEFG) (Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Disability/Drugs, Environment/ECG, Full bladder, Blood glucose)

NO

YES

Benztropine 1‐2 mg IVI/IMI(adult dose) should be available when giving haloperidol  to treat possible acute dystoniaFlumazenil  0.2‐0.5mg IVI(adult dose) should be available when giving midazolam if acute reversal is required

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Elective retrieval sedation• This use of sedation is for planned agitation/behavioural management 

during aeromedical transport. The patient is usually under the Mental Health Act as an involuntary status but may not be. 

• Warning : Elective sedation should be avoided in an intoxicated patient.

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Plan A

• Setup for procedural sedation (assessment, monitoring ,drugs, IV access)

• RFDS restraints

• Observe and sedate as needed

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Plan B

• Setup for procedural sedation• Review prior sedation requirements• Bolus IV sedation ( midazolam or ketamine, haloperidol) to achieve RASS 0 to ‐3

• Start infusion of maintenance sedative(midazolam or ketamine)

• PRN haloperidol or ketamine initially to settle rather than increasing infusion rate

• Observe effect of infusion for minimum 40 min at handover location

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Transport monitoring/nursing for sedated patient on infusions

• AS FOR A VENTILATED PATIENT• NIBP, SaO2, Cardiac• ETCO2 ( how you ask??)• 10 minutely observations including recording of RASS score and ETCO2

• Bispectral Index Monitoring in Helicopter Emergency Medical Services Patients 

• Author Heegaard, William ∙ Fringer, Ryan Charles ∙Frascone, R. J. ∙ Pippert, Greg ∙Miner, James 

• Published 2009 Journal Prehospital Emergency Care

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Intubation and ventilation

• Is this necessary?

• If so, what psychiatric emergency warrants such measures?

• Is this commonly done in the ED in Australia for psychiatric problems?

• Medical decision, not aviation decision

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How far are you prepared to go??

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What should we do?

• NAEMSP. National Association of EMS Physician Paper, Patient Restraint for EMS Systems. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2002;6(3): 340‐345.

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NAEMSP

• Chemical restraint:– Butyrophenones and/or benzodiazpines are most frequently used.

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NAEMSP

• Chemical restraint:– “Neuromuscular blockers with endotracheal intubation should never be used solely for the purpose of restraining violent behavior.”

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When would I consider intubation for transport?

• IF 4 or more of the following:• No chance of police escort• Urgent need for transport• Inadequate or no preflight sedation• Active psychosis• Flight duration >60min• INTOXICATED STATE• CO‐MORBID MEDICAL ILLNESS

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Tips if you decide to intubate..

• Secure decision for receiving unit prior to RSI ( can get very complicated and political!!!)

• Standard psychiatric medicines usually not a problem with standard RSI drugs

• Once tubed, try to avoid NMB

• Use short acting sedatives (milk of amnesia)

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A case of intubation and logistics

• Helo evac for schizophrenia exarcebation from remote island

• Delays in secondary air evac = 40hrs ventilation time

• Hypotension requiring adrenaline

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What are the risks of procedural sedation?

• Procedural sedation in the community emergency department:initial results of the ProSCED registry. Sacchetti et al. Acad Emerg Med, 2007;14(1):41‐46.

• 980 patient sedations• 4.1 % any complication rate• No change in patient disposition• Ketamine, Propofol least complications• Fentanyl, midazolam highest complications

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QLD Coroner’s report, Mr AF, 1st December 2001

• Suicidal mental health patient, cut both wrists• Required pepper spray by police• Brought into RBH ED, ETOH intoxicated++• Combative +++• Sedated with ?IMI midazolam?haloperidol• Began vomiting+++• Aspirated and died despite oral ETI attempts with suxamethonium and a surgical airway attempt by ED staff

• Autopsy: gastric content aspiration, BAL 0.27

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Primum Non Nocere‐whatever you decide to do!

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Remember Mr T??

• Decision to proceed with RSI

• Preparations made

• Consult with ED and RFDS senior

• ED say tube, RFDS senior says setup for tube but try one dose of ketamine

• 70mg IV bolus ketamine given

• Excellent sedation

• Transported with restraints and further dose of 50 mg

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Summary

• Current air transport of psychiatric patients lacks consistency in planning and execution

• Proper transport preparation and planning stems from adequate assessment during the planning and handover phases of the psychiatric patient

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Summary

• The aeromedical and psychiatric literature suggests appropriate escort, chemical and physical restraint are sufficient

• The resort to intubation for high risk transports should be the rare exception rather than the accepted practice

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I hope I have...

• Given you something to think about

• Motivated you to consider research into this area

• Provided a glimpse at one model of better practice

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